There was never a single language, religion, or "great tradition," such as Confucianism in China and Hinduism in India. ... They even developed a language to further widen communication among traders, and called it Swahili. ... This growth of trade resulted in thriving African cities, such as Timbuktu, and helped develop new social and political patterns in a wide stretch of Africa below the Sahara. ... This was the first of the very wealthy Islamic areas of Africa. ... Islam was still not a majority of Africa, but was fully integrated with its trade and politics. ...

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Cyrus Veesers idea in Great Leaps Forward: Modernization in Africa, Asia, and Latin America is to simply explain how less-developed nations across the planet tried to catch up to "the Wests " rise to power. ... Mexico wasn't the only country that got engulfed with the desire to become modernized, Africa was in the line of sight for Europe as their next project for modernization. ... Menelik had much success unifying and modernizing Ethiopia that he gained the title "the Lion of Africa " for defending his nation's independence. ... China was unlike any non-western nation, they brought...

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Muslims conquered the Fertile Crescent, Persia, Egypt, developed the Arabic written language, and took control of the Mediterranean Sea within a century of their rise. ... These maps led explorers across the Atlantic and around Africa. ...

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Kerry Grogan THE 241-01 Task # 1 Oct. 23, 2014 1. Person: Joseph Smith Facts: Joseph Smith is the founding father of the practice that we know today, Mormonism. He grew up in the early 19th century and as a young teenage boy who claimed to have a series of visitations, revelations from God and visitations from angelic messengers, while he was praying in a grove of trees. Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mor...

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Huntington states the "most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating" (Huntington, 1993) what he identified as eight specific civilizations: "Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and African" (Huntington, 1993). These are not absolutely exclusive of each other, and there are various degrees of similarity between them, what does differentiate them from each other are their languages and histories, traditions and cultures, but "most important, religion" (Huntington, 1993). ...

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